Author: Ridavn Emini

The concentration of Aleksandar Vucic’s power over the army and the security apparatus is bringing back to the Balkans the dangerous logic of the 1990s, creating direct tensions for Kosovo and challenging NATO’s stabilizing role in the region. The politicization of the military, its authoritarian centralization, and nationalist rhetoric form a model similar to that of Milosevic, but wrapped in modern diplomacy. By expanding military cooperation with China and deepening geopolitical alignment with Russia, Serbia is becoming an increasingly serious threat to the countries of the region, while against Kosovo it continues hegemonistic propaganda and destabilizing mechanisms through political structures…